Pluggable L&F

What Pluggable L&F can I get besides the standard ones (Java, Win, Motif)

Thats it. Check out http://www.l2fprod.com/software/skinlf/index.html though for a way to have skinnable apps.

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Ideas or help needed for a simple, robust pluggable framework

Hi all,
Having written a fairly decent plugin engine, similar in concept to the Eclipse plugin engine, although at a more generic scale, I am looking for any possible ideas for a Java Swing framework that is built around the engine, with the concept of using a framework that is built on mostly plugins. My engine handles, or will soon handle, a number of features to make the engine robust enough, yet still easy enough, to use for just about any purpose.
The engine is pretty simple, although with a bit more work I feel will be overall a pretty robust and powerful plugin engine. Each plugin is made up of one or more "services". A plugin is a .jar file that contains a plugin-conf.xml config file, the classes that implement the Service interface, and any supporting classes. The "plugin" is really the package of one or more services and supporting classes. The engine will handle the ability to work with expanded dir structures as well, so that the build process doesn't have to create .jar files on every build of a plugin. The engine has built in support to load, unload and reload a plugin at runtime. This helps during development by allowing auto-reload of a plugin service without having to restart the app. The engine has the ability to "watch" URLs in a separate thread (still working on this), and at given intervals if a change occurs to any plugin, that plugin is reloaded. This is configurable on a per plugin basis in the config file.
Every plugin .jar file gets its own classloader instance. Because of the nature of a framework that may rely heavily on plugins, it will be very common to have plugin dependencies, where a plugin service may rely on one or more other plugin services. The dependencies are configured in the plugin-conf.xml file, and the engine resolves these when the plugin is loaded, automatically. Once all plugins have been loaded, an "init" call is made that then goes and resolves all plugin service dependencies, setting up the behind the scenes work to make sure any service can use any other service it defines to depend on. Another area is plugin versions. There will no doubt be a time when some sort of application may have legacy plugins, but also have newer plugins. For example, an application built on a "core" set of plugins, may eventually update the core plugins with newer versions. The engine allows the "old" plugins to exist and work while new versions of the same plugins may be loaded and working at the same time. This allows older plugins that depend on the old set of core plugins to work, while newer plugins that depend on the new core plugins may work also. Any plugin may depend on one or more services specified by specific versions, or a range of versions.
Plugin services can define to be created when first loaded, or lazy instantiated. Ideally, an application would opt for lazy instantiation until a plugin is needed. For example, a number of plugins may need to add menu items or buttons that would trigger its service. The plugin does not actually need to be created until the menu or button is clicked on. There is one BIG problem with how this engine works though. Unlike the Eclipse (and other) engines where the config file defines the menu item(s), buttons, etc in an xml sort of language, this engine is built for generic use, and therefore is not specific to menu items or buttons triggering a service instantiation. Therefore, a little "hack" is required. A specific plugin that is created when first loaded will be required to set up all the menu items for specific plugins, then handle the actionPerformed() call to instruct the engine to create the service. The next step would be for the plugin service to add its own handler to the specific menu item it depends on, and remove the "old" handler the startup plugin added to it to handle the initial click. Another thought just struck me though. Because the engine must use an XML parser to load every plugin-conf.xml file, it might be possible to "extend" the parsing routine, where by an extending class could be added to the engine to parse plugin-conf.xml files. First the plugin engines own routine would parse it. Then, the extending class could parse for any extra plugin-conf.xml info, such as menu item settings, and directly set up the menu items and handlers in this manner. I will probably include this ability directly in the engine soon anyway, so that nobody else has to do this, but this is one area I would appreciate some feedback on.
Anyway, so that is the jist of the engine. There is more to it under the hood, but that sums up a good part of it. Now, the pluggable framework, much like what the "shell" of eclipse, forte and so forth offer, is built around my engine to make it very easy to build Swing applications with a pluggable framework underneath. The idea is to package up a startup main class that is configurable, a number of useful plugins that other plugins could depend on, such as an Outlook layout, menuing, toolbars, drag/drop, history, undo/redo, macro record, open/save/search/find/replace dialogs, and so forth. This isn't just for an IDE though. The developer using the framework could deploy the basic app with the plugins of his/her choice, and add to it with his/her own plugins.
Soooo, after this long post, what I am getting at is if anyone would be interested in helping out with ideas, feedback, testing, core framework plugins, and so forth. At this time I am keeping the code closed, but will probably public domain it, open source it, or whatever. The finished framework should make it easy for anyone to quickly build useable applications, and if all goes well, I'd like to set up a site with a location for 3rd party plugins to be uploaded, for download, comments, etc. Being a web developer, I myself will probably work on some plugins for Web Services, web stress testing, and so forth. I have lots of ideas for useable plugins.
On that note, one application I am personally working on for my own use, is a simple yet possibly robust internet suite of apps. I want to incorporate FTP, Email, NewsGroup, and IRC/AOL IM/Yahoo IM/MSN IM/ICQ chat into a single app. Every aspect of it would be plugins. Frankly, I hate outlook, Eudora is alright, but I want to do some things with the email app. I also want a single IM/Chat app that can talk with all protocols (not an easy task, take a look at GAIM). Newsgroups are handy to work with for developers and others of interest, as is FTP. But even more so, being able to have all in one big application framework that allows them to share data between each other, work with one another, and so forth is appealing to me, and being written in Java it could potentially work on many platforms, giving some platforms a possible nice set of internet apps to use. Being able to send an email to a mailing list AND have it posted to specific newsgroups at the same time without having to copy/paste, open up separate applications and so forth has appeal. Directly emailing from any chat or newsgroup link without another app starting up is a little faster as well. Those are just "small" things that could prove to be very kewl in a complete internet app. Adding a web browser, well, I don't think I want to go that route. But if there is already a decent Java built web browser, it shouldn't be too hard to add it as a plugin.
So, if anyone is interested, by all means, drop a post to this thread, let me know of interest, feedback, ideas, point out bad things, and so forth. I appreciate all forms of communication.
Thanks.

Yes I do. I am using it now with my work related project.
I am in fact reworking the engine a bit now. I want to incorporate the notion of services (like OSGi) where by a plugin can register services. These services are "global" in scope, meaning any plugin may request the use of a service. However, services, unlike plugins, are not guaranteed to be available. Therefore, plugins using services must be coded to properly handle this possibility. As an example, imagine an email application using my engine. One plugin may provide the email gateway, including the javamail .jar library and provide the email service. Other plugins, such as the one that provides the functionality for the SEND button, would "use" this service. At runtime, when the send button was pressed it would ask the engine for the email service. If available, off goes the email. If not, it could pop up a dialog indicating some sort of message that the email service is not available.
I am at the VERY beginning stages in this direction so I'd love to have ideas, thoughts, suggestions as to how this might be implemented. I do believe though that it will provide for a more powerful engine. The nice thing is, while the engine will support static runtime plugins, it will also support dynamic services that can come and go during the runtime. The key is that plugins using services do not maintain references to them, but instead query the engine each time a plugin needs to use a service.
Static plugins are those that are guaranteed to be available or if not, any dependent plugin is not allowed to load. That is, if A depends on B and B is not able to be loaded, A is unloaded as well as it can't perform its job without B; it depends on B in some manner to complete its function. Imagine a plugin adding an option panel to the Preferences page only that the Preferences plugin is not loaded. It just can't work. However, with some work, there could be variations on this. That is, a plugin may provide a menu item as well as a preferences page. If the preference plugin is not available, then the plugin may simply still work via the menu item, but have no preferences panel available. This should be configurable via the plugin-conf.xml config file. However, as I have it now, using extension points and extensions like Eclipse does, it is also possible that if the Preferences plugin isn't loaded, it wont look for ANY extensions extending its extensino point, and therefore the plugins could all still run but there would simply be no preferences page. So, I am not entirely sure yet which way is best for this to work.
My engine, as it stands now, allows for separate classloader plugin loading, it automatically resolves all dependencies by creating the plugin registry each time the engine is started up. To speed up plugin loading, it maintains a plugins.xml file in the root dir that keeps track of each plugin that was loaded and its last timestamp. Plugins can be open directory files or jarred up into .PAR files (think .WAR or .EAR files). The engine can find .par or open-dir plugins in multiple locations (including URL locations for direct .par files). When it finds a .par file, it first decompresses the .par file to a plugin work directory. Every plugin must have a plugin-conf.xml in its root dir, and either a /classes dir where compiled classes are, or a .jar file in the root path of the plugin, where the /classes dir superscedes the .jar file. Alternatively, anything in a /lib dir is automatically picked up as part of the plugin classpath. So a plugin that wraps the xerces.jar file can simply place the xerces.jar in the /lib dir and automatically present the xerces library to all dependent plugins (which can import the xerces classes but not need to distribute the xerces.jar file if a plugin they depend on has it in its /lib dir). The "parent lookup" process goes only one parent level deep. That is, if plugin A depends on a class in a /lib/*.jar file in plugin B, then the engine will resolve the class (through delegation) of plugin B. But if A depends on B, B depends on C where plugin C's /lib/*.jar file contains a class A is looking to use, this will not work and A will throw a ClassNotFoundException. In other words, the parent lookup only goes as far as the classpath of all dependent plugins, not up the chain of all dependent plugins. Eclipse allows each plugin to "export" various classes, or packages, or entire .jar files and the lookup can go all the way up the chain if need be. I haven't yet found a big reason for supporting this, so I am not too concerned with that at this point. The engine does support reloadable plugins although I have not yet implemented it. Because each plugin information object is stored in a Map keyed on the plugins GUID (found in the plugin-conf.xml file), it is easy enough to load a new plugin (since they get their own classloader) and replace the object at the GUID key and now have a reloaded plugin. The harder part is properly notifying all dependent plugins of the reload and what to do with them. Therefore I have not quite yet implemented this feature although the first step can easily be done, so long as nobody minds the "remnants" of older plugins laying around and possibly not being garbage collected.
All of this works now, and I am using it. I do NOT have a generic UI framework just yet. I am working on that now. Eclipse has a very nice feature in that every plugin.xml file builds up the UI without any plugin code ever being created or ran. I am working on something like that now, although I am focussed more on the aspect of the engine at this point.
Two things keep me going. First, the shear fun of working on this and seeing it succeed, even if a little bit. Second, while I love the idea of Eclipse, OSGi and other engines, so far I have yet to find one that is very easy to write plugins for, is very small, and is "generic" enough for any use. Some may argue JBoss core, at 29K can do this. I don't know if it can. It is built around JMX and I don't know that I agree JMX is the "ultimate" core plugin engine for all types of apps. Not that mine is either, but I'd like to see what I am working on become that if possible. Currently, with an xml parser (www.xmlpull.org) added as part of the code, my engine is about 40K with debug info, maybe about 28K without. I expect it to grow a bit more with services, reloadable/unloadable code, and some other stuff. However, I am thinking it will still be around 50K in size and in my opinion, with an xml read/write parser (very fast one at that), extension/extensino points, services, dependencies, multiple versions of plugins (soon), load/unload/reload capabilities, .par management (unjar into work dir, download .par files from urls, etc) and open directory capabilities, inidividual classloaders, automatic dependency resolution, dynamic dependency resolution and possibly even more, I think what my engine offers (and will offer) is pretty cool in my book.
None the less, there is always room for improvement. One of the things I pride myself on is using as little code and keeping the code neat and easily readable, not to mention as non-archaic as possible, makes for an easily maintainable project.
So, having said all that, YES, the engine can be used as is right now. It does not reload plugins, but you can dynamically load plugins, handle dependency resolution, have a very fast xml read/write parser at your disposal for any plugin, and for the most part easily write plugins. That is all possible now. I should put the engine I have now up on my generic-plugin-engine sourceforge project one of these days, perhaps soon I will do that! While I have no problem handing out the code, I am currently the only committer and I don't have it loaded into CVS at this point. I would like to do so very soon.
So, if you are interested, by all means, let me know and I'll be happy to send you what I have, and love to have more help on the next version of this.

HT4617 Even though thunderbolt is not hot puggable in Bootcamp, is the use of mini displayport to vga/dvi still hot pluggable under Bootcamp?

Even though thunderbolt is not hot puggable in Bootcamp, is the use of mini displayport to vga/dvi still hot pluggable under Bootcamp?

This is Apple support on the subject
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4617
Can I plug and unplug devices into a Thunderbolt peripheral that is already recognized?
Yes. That is the best way to add and remove devices from the Thunderbolt chain while Windows 7 is running.
Have you tried?

Using Web Service as Data source (Pluggable Data Source) in Oracle Reports

Anyone using Webservice as a pluggable data source in oracle 10g reports.(Report builder version:10.1.2.0.2)? We need to be able to use web service as one of the data source to create reports.Tried the following and ran into issues:
Imported the wspds.jar fle from oracle plugin exchage. When tried using it received the following error in oracle reports trace file.
04/26 22:27:22 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: oracle.xml.parser.schema.XSDBuilder.build([Loracle/xml/parser/v2/XMLDocument;Ljava/net/URL;)Ljava/lang/Object;
By troubleshooting issue found out that xmlparserv2.jar in 10g is newer than xmlparserv2.jar in 9i. wspds.jar is using xmlparserv2.jar in 9i as it was developed and tested for 9i only. Believe there is no newer wspds.jar file developed specifically for 10g?
Is there a better/standard solution to use webservice as data source in oracle 10g reports? Does later version of oracle reports supports webservice as a data source without any additional plugins? Any suggestion would be helpful.

Please provide support for the above request.
It appears that Oracle 10g reports doesn't support Web Service as pluggable data source. Is this option is available in Oracle 11g Reports or Oracle Discoverer Or OBIEE?

Custom Login using the Pluggable Identity Management Framework

Hi all,
We are trying to establish 2 ways into our application:
1. via a login form
2. seamless login from an external application
To achieve this we are trying to build our own custom authentication using the pluggable IDM framework.
Basically if a secure page is requested, we want to check the header/cookie/request (don't mind which) for a key which is provided by the external application. If present, the key is validated against a web service provided by the external app, the identity is asserted and the user is entered seamlessly into the application. If the header/cookie/request does not contain a key the user is to be redirected to a login page, where they can input username and password which will be validated against our database.
We've created a Token Collector and Token Asserter class, we've modified our custom Login Module to retrieve the identity created by the Token Asserter but we haven't worked out how to get the alternate login page working for users which don't come through the external application.
Has anybody built anything similar? From the documentation it appears we should be able to achieve our goal using the pluggable IDM, but we're going around in circles a bit at the moment.
Any help/sample code would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.

Can you tell why the page is not working? I mean, any errors ? What happens when you try to open the protected resource?
Here is an example of the code, I removed some part of the code specific to the bussines so if you have doubts just let me know
token collector
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import oracle.security.jazn.collector.CollectorException;
import oracle.security.jazn.collector.TokenCollector;
import oracle.security.jazn.sso.SSOTokenFormatException;
import oracle.security.jazn.token.IdentityToken;
import oracle.security.jazn.token.TokenNotFoundException;
public class MyTokenCollector implements TokenCollector
private Properties _properties;
public void fail(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response, int reason)
throws CollectorException
String loginURL = _properties.getProperty("custom.sso.url.login");
String urlParam = _properties.getProperty("custom.sso.url.param");
String idParam = _properties.getProperty("custom.sso.id.param");
Log.Info("Token collection failed (" + reason + ")");
StringBuffer requestURL = request.getRequestURL();
String queryString = request.getQueryString();
requestURL = requestURL.append("?").append(queryString);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
try
sb = sb.append(urlParam).append("=");
String encodedStr =
URLEncoder.encode(requestURL.toString(), "UTF-8");
sb = sb.append(encodedStr);
sb = sb.append("#").append(request.getServerName()).append("#").append(request.getServerPort());
String redirectQueryString = sb.toString();
String rurl = loginURL + "?" + redirectQueryString;
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(rurl));
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee)
SSOTokenFormatException stfe =
new SSOTokenFormatException(uee, 4);
Log.Error(stfe.getMessage());
throw new CollectorException(stfe);
catch (IOException ioe)
Log.Error("IOException occured: " + ioe);
throw new CollectorException(ioe);
public IdentityToken getToken(String tokenType,
HttpServletRequest request,
List tokenNames, Properties properties)
throws TokenNotFoundException, CollectorException
_properties = properties;
String valor = null;
Log.Info("URL: "+request.getRequestURI());
if ( tokenType. equalsIgnoreCase("HTTP_COOKIE"))
valor = procesarCookie(request, tokenNames);
}else if (tokenType.equalsIgnoreCase("HTTP_HEADER"))
valor = procesarHeader(request, tokenNames);
}else
throw new CollectorException("token type not supported");
MyIdentityToken token = new MyIdentityToken(valor);
token.setTokenType(tokenType);
token.setPropiedades(properties);
return token;
private String procesarCookie(HttpServletRequest request, List tokenNames)
throws TokenNotFoundException
if (1 != tokenNames.size())
//Only one cookie can be handled
String error = "Invalid number of cookies check jazn.xml";
throw new TokenNotFoundException(error);
Map cookies = new Hashtable();
Cookie allCookies[] = request.getCookies();
if (allCookies != null)
String cookieName = (String) tokenNames.get(0);
Log.Info( "Searching for cookie: " + cookieName);
Cookie cookie;
for(int i = 0; i < allCookies.length; i++)
cookie = allCookies;
if (cookie.getName().equals(cookieName))
return cookie.getValue();
String error = "Rquired cookie not found";
Log.Error(error);
throw new TokenNotFoundException(error);
}else
String error = "No cookie on request";
throw new TokenNotFoundException(error);
private String procesarHeader(HttpServletRequest request, List tokenNames)
throws TokenNotFoundException
String nombreHeader = (String) tokenNames.get(0);
String header = request.getHeader(nombreHeader);
if (header != null)
return header;
}else
String error = "Request doesn't have the requierd header";
throw new TokenNotFoundException(error);
Token Asserter Example
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.security.auth.Subject;
import oracle.security.jazn.asserter.AsserterException;
import oracle.security.jazn.asserter.TokenAsserter;
import oracle.security.jazn.callback.IdentityCallbackHandler;
import oracle.security.jazn.callback.IdentityCallbackHandlerImpl;
import oracle.security.jazn.token.IdentityToken;
public class MyTokenAsserter
implements TokenAsserter
public void finalize()
throws Throwable
public IdentityCallbackHandler assertIdentity(String tokenType,
IdentityToken token,
Properties properties)
throws AsserterException
InversuraIdentityToken idToken = (InversuraIdentityToken) token;
String valorToken = idToken.getValorToken();
InversuraToken invToken;
try {
invToken = new InversuraToken(valorToken);
if (verificarVigencia(invToken))
IdentityCallbackHandlerImpl idcb = new IdentityCallbackHandlerImpl(invToken.getLogin());
idcb.setAuthenticationType("InversuraSSO");
idcb.setIdentityAsserted(true);
MyPrincipal ppal = new MyPrincipal(invToken.getLogin());
Subject subj = new Subject();
subj.getPrincipals().add(ppal);
idcb.setSubject(subj);
return idcb;
throw new AsserterException("Token expired");
}catch (Exception e)
String error = e.getMessage();
throw new AsserterException(error, e);
public boolean verificarVigencia(InversuraToken token)
return token.estaVigente();

Failed to fetch pluggable data source error

I'm getting this error when creating a report that is connecting to a DB2 table using jdbc. Report builder seems to connect to the database fine, however when I attempt to compile/run the report I get the following error -
'REP-4102: Failed to fetch pluggable data source.
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: COM/ibm/db2/jdbc/app/DB2ResultSet.getStatement'
I'm using the following in my jdbcpds.conf on my local machine.
<driver name = "ibm-db2"
subProtocol = "db2"
connectString = "subProtocol:databaseName"
class = "COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver"
connection = "oracle.reports.plugin.datasource.jdbcpds.JDBCConnectionHandling"
loginTimeout = "0">
</driver>
Has anyone experienced this issue or has some insight as to what I need to do to resolve this?
TIA
Brian

Dear Oracle Reports Team,
Can you please help me out ???
Need your help in this regard urgently.
Best Regards,
Ramakrishnan L
Dear Friends,
I am encountering the following the error while running the reports.
REP-4102: Failed to fetch pluggable data source.
java.lang.NumberFormatException: 75,000000
I am using an Express Query in this case.
The same report runs perfectly when connected to the NT server that has the reports server,Http server and the rdf file.The db that the reports uses is on the SOLARIS server.
But when I use the reports server,http server and the rdf file avaiable to me on the SOLARIS server with the db also now on the same machine it does not run and gives the error.
What could be the problem ?
Just to add more clarity below is the URL which I use to display the report
NT URL(This works perfectly)
http://sa560:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=rep_sa560&report=c:\DWHReports\Man_Days_Spent.rdf&express_server="server=ora_ro_tcp:172.20.128.199/sl=-2/st=1/ct=0/st=1/"&destype=cache&desformat=htmlcss&OESHOST=172.20.128.199&SUSR_NAME='oraexp'&PASSWORD='test'
SOLARIS URL(This does not work and gives the error)
http://172.20.128.199:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=rep_gosisvr&report=Man_Days_Spent.rdf&express_server="server=ora_ro_tcp:172.20.128.199/sl=-2/st=1/ct=0/st=1/"&destype=cache&desformat=htmlcss&OESHOST=172.20.128.199&USR_NAME='oraexp'&PASSWORD='test'
Regds,
Ramakrishnan L

Can I use flashback database to flashback a pluggable database?

Hi All,
I created a container database and then created a pluggable database.
In the pluggable 12.1 datbase, I loaded the user data.
I performed the below
sqlplus / as sysdba;
create restore point CLEAN_DB guarantee flashback database;
And I performed the transactions on the pdb.
Now my intention is to restore to the restore point CLEAN_DB as created from the above step.
If I perform the below, will it restore my pdb to the initial state?
flashback database to restore point CLEAN_DB;
Regards,
Kamal.

Hi,
You cannot use FLASHBACK DATABASE for pluggable database.
Flashback query/versions queryis UNDO based and work in PDB’s
Flashback transaction query/flashback transactionis UNDO and REDO based and work in PDB’s
Flashback data archiveUNDO gernerated archives
Flashback table
before drop –> Rename segment name of recylebin, which is based on UNDO, work in PDB’s
flashback table to –> is UNDO based, work in PDB’s
Flashback databasedoesn’t work in PDB’s:
RMAN> flashback pluggable database prmdb01 to time "to_date('23:00 20-11-2013','hh24:mi dd-mm-yyyy')";
Starting flashback at 25-NOV-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
using channel ORA_DISK_2
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of flashback command at 11/20/2013 23:00:00
RMAN-05108: Command is not supported for pluggable database
Regards
Mahir M. Quluzade
p.s. Command exists but not supporting, may be next release come support.

Error in reconciling pluggable mapping

Hello Everybody,
When i try to reconcile pluggable maapings, i get the error
"MMM1058: Access invalid property 1 in array property."
Could any one suggest what can be the cause of this error.
We are using OWB 10G R2 (10.2.0.2.0).
Thanks in advance.
Sunil.

Hi,
The scenario I am trying to test is a multi mapping scenario where I am trying to split one source message and create two target messages by using two different receiver interfaces, one for each message.
I am on PI 7.1 and when I test message mapping and operation mapping using the payload from SXMB_MONI, it is successful. Whereas when I test the scenario end to end I am getting the following error messages:
Operation Mapping
Employee_Out_SI_To_Employee1_In_SI_AND_Employee2_In_SI_OM
Name
Employee_Out_SI_To_Employee1_In_SI_AND_Employee2_In_SI_OM
Namespace
http://accenture.com/1:N_multi-mapping
Runtime error
Split mapping created no messages
Start tag ns0:Messages Add raw attribute xmlns:ns0="http://sap.com/xi/XI/SplitAndMerge" Start tag ns0:Message1 Close tag ns0:Message1 Start tag ns0:Message2 Close tag ns0:Message2 Close tag ns0:Messages
Could someone please help
Cheers,
S

Unable to follow links in pdf document which use asynchronous pluggable protocol on Windows unless we disable extended security completely (Reader 11.0.7) - is there any other way round this?

We have a pdf document which contains links of the format appname://some/path.
This is using Windows Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols which we have defined in the registry so these links should launch the application with the path as an argument.
If we disable enhanced security in Reader 11.0.7 then this works - otherwise it just fails to do anything.
With enhanced security on, we get warning and select trust this site for all pdfs.
Adobe then stores the first part of the path i.e. for appname://some/path it will store path in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\TrustManager\cDefaultLaunchURLPerms].
Don't get warning after that but the application still doesn't launch if enhanced security is enabled.

Apologies was mislead - it's not enhanced security which is causing the issue, it is protected mode.

Pluggable Mappings and Input Parameters

Hi All,
I have a mapping which receives 2 input parameters. I have created a pluggable mapping to which I would like to pass those same values. Is is possible to pass parameter values into a pluggable mapping such that these values are NOT part of the input signature?
thanks
Ok, I have more information. When I deploy my mapping, I found the following code commented out of the main procedure:
-- register custom input parameters:
-- Temp fix until selective registration ensures correct handling of complex types
-- wb_rt_mapaudit_util.register_custom_param(x_audit_id,
-- '"MY_PARAM"',
-- TO_CHAR("MY_PARAM"));
What is the "selective registration" that they mention and how do I do it?
thanks, again
Edited by: philip_b on Mar 26, 2010 8:39 AM

Thanks for responding David. I am using Client: 10.2.0.1.31 and Repo: 10.2.0.1.0
I was hoping I didn't have to include it in the signature because I didn't want these values to be part of the incoming dataset; that just complicates the mapping logic for me.
It would make sense to me that the pluggable mapping should have access to the parent mapping's parameter values.
Why is the parameter registration code commented out inside the generated package? Do you know what it is referring to when it mentions "selective registration"? I can't find any reference to it:-/
Someone else had the same issue last year on the following thread, but there were no responses to the issue:
wb_rt_mapaudit_util register_custom_param call commented out in gen'd sql

Pluggable Mapping causing VLD 1600 validation error

We are using OWB client 11g R2 on windows. I am trying to use the pluggable mapping functionality to use for our reference data lookups, whereby we want to retrieve full descriptions in several languages from the reference data table. The standalone mapping takes in two parameters in the input signature, both NVARCHAR2, a reference type and reference code to perform the lookup. There is then a key lookup whose output (5 NVARCHAR2 values) goes to an expression which has a CASE statement to evaluate the results before passing them to the output signature.
The problem is when using the pluggable mapping in a normal mapping it does not validate, and I am getting the VLD-1600: Lookup Condition for Key Lookup REF_DATA_APEX is blank. error. The key lookup of course does have a Lookup Condition.
The mapping is a simple one, taking a source and mostly mapping directly to the target. It is set based only. I have one source attribute being passed to the pluggable mapping along with a constant, and the output is passed to an expression (which doesn't actually do anything, but without this I got API8003 error when connecting the output attributes to the target attributes).
Is there something I am missing in how to implement this feature ?

Hi,
I am having the same problem with pluggable mapping and lookup operator, when mapping is syncronized it gives error VLD1108. I believe it is a bug of OWB 11.2.0.2.
Did you manage to resolve it?
Thanks,
Alex

Pluggable Protocol not released (?)

Hi,
I have an MFC application which uses CHtmlView (WebBrowser control) to display HTML data. For displaying, I implemeted an asynchronous pluggable protocol. I did this by adding ATL support to my MFC project and adding an OLE class derived from IInternetProtocol
and IInternetProtocolInfo to my project (using the wizard). My pluggable protocol is defined as follows:
class ATL_NO_VTABLE CPluggableProtocol :
public CComObjectRootEx<CComSingleThreadModel>,
public CComCoClass<CPluggableProtocol, &CLSID_PluggableProtocol>,
public IInternetProtocol,
public IInternetProtocolInfo
public:
CPluggableProtocol()
: m_fData(MEMORY_BUFFER)
DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID(IDR_PLUGGABLEPROTOCOL)
BEGIN_COM_MAP(CPluggableProtocol)
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IInternetProtocolInfo)
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IInternetProtocol)
END_COM_MAP()
DECLARE_PROTECT_FINAL_CONSTRUCT()
HRESULT FinalConstruct()
return S_OK;
void FinalRelease()
// IInternetProtocol interface
public:
STDMETHOD(Start)(
LPCWSTR szUrl,
IInternetProtocolSink *pIProtSink,
IInternetBindInfo *pIBindInfo,
DWORD grfSTI,
DWORD dwReserved);
STDMETHOD(Continue)(PROTOCOLDATA *pStateInfo);
STDMETHOD(Abort)(HRESULT hrReason,DWORD dwOptions);
STDMETHOD(Terminate)(DWORD dwOptions);
STDMETHOD(Suspend)();
STDMETHOD(Resume)();
STDMETHOD(Read)(void *pv,ULONG cb,ULONG *pcbRead);
STDMETHOD(Seek)(
LARGE_INTEGER dlibMove,
DWORD dwOrigin,
ULARGE_INTEGER *plibNewPosition);
STDMETHOD(LockRequest)(DWORD dwOptions);
STDMETHOD(UnlockRequest)();
// IInternetProtocolInfo interface
public:
STDMETHOD(CombineUrl)(LPCWSTR pwzBaseUrl, LPCWSTR pwzRelativeUrl, DWORD dwCombineFlags,
LPWSTR pwzResult, DWORD cchResult, DWORD *pcchResult, DWORD dwReserved);
STDMETHOD(CompareUrl)(LPCWSTR pwzUrl1, LPCWSTR pwzUrl2, DWORD dwCompareFlags);
STDMETHOD(ParseUrl)(LPCWSTR pwzUrl, PARSEACTION ParseAction, DWORD dwParseFlags,
LPWSTR pwzResult, DWORD cchResult, DWORD *pcchResult, DWORD dwReserved);
STDMETHOD(QueryInfo)( LPCWSTR pwzUrl, QUERYOPTION QueryOption, DWORD dwQueryFlags,
LPVOID pBuffer, DWORD cbBuffer, DWORD *pcbBuf, DWORD dwReserved);
private:
CAtlStringW GetContentType(CString &);
CMemFile m_fData;
In my InitInstance I register this protocol using RegisterNameSpace (and UnregisterNameSpace in ExitInstance). This is done by the following:
CComPtr<IClassFactory> m_spCF; // (class member)
CComPtr<IInternetSession> spIInetSession;
if(FAILED(CoInternetGetSession(0, &spIInetSession, 0)))
return FALSE;
HRESULT hr;
if(FAILED(CPluggableProtocol::_ClassFactoryCreatorClass::CreateInstance(CPluggableProtocol::_CreatorClass::CreateInstance, IID_IClassFactory, reinterpret_cast<void**>(&m_spCF))))
return FALSE;
hr = spIInetSession->RegisterNameSpace(m_spCF, CLSID_PluggableProtocol, m_strProtocol, 0, NULL, 0);
This works on all the computers I have access to and it worked for a few months no. No problems.
But now I got the message from somebody using the application that the application does not terminate. Using logfiles I found out that AfxOleCanExitApp() returns TRUE in CMainFrame::OnNcDestroy. This means that not all COM objects have been released and
therefore the application does not quit (only the windows disappear). Using the debugger (breakpoint at AfxOleLockApp()), I found out that the one COM object which is calling AfxOleLockApp is the asynchronous pluggable protocol (through urlmon.dll).
Unfortunately I can not do trial and error because it works perfectly on all my computers. But since it does obviously not work for a different person I am sure I have a little mistake in my implementation. I have very few COM experience, therefore it may
be that the code above is not perfectly correct.
Does anybody see a mistake in my implementation which could cause the bug?
Thank you very much,
Peter

Hello,
Hmm, no idea? :-(
Another thing which came into my mind:
I call RegisterNameSpace in InitInstance and UnregisterNameSpace in ExitInstance. However, ExitInstance is called
after receiving WM_QUIT, bevor the MFC framework asks via AfxOleCanExitApp() if it will call PostQuitMessage().
Maybe I must do this stuff in the window function? E.g. RegisterNameSpace on WM_CREATE and UnregisterNamespace on WM_CLOSE? This would be before the AfxOleCanExitApp() check...
And: After I cann UnregisterNameSpace, can I be sure that all COM objects are destroyed and released?
Regards, Peter

EXPLAIN PLAN with pluggable mapping

Dear Folks,
I have a mapping with a pluggable mapping included. When I try to get the EXPLAIN PLAN TREE I receive an error: 'ORA-00904: "FULLPACKAGENAME"."CONSTANT_0_SITUATION_1":invalid identifier'.
The EXPLAIN PLAN REPORT says in the first line: Error: cannot fetch last explain plan from PLAN_TABLE
When I search for 'CONSTANT_0_SITUATION_1' I can find things like:
(SELECT
"WH_JOIN_GSMNMBR_PORTINGDATA"."GSS_VOI_ID" "FACT1_ID",
"WH_JOIN_GSMNMBR_PORTINGDATA"."BEGINDATE" "FACT1_BEGINDATE",
"WH_JOIN_GSMNMBR_PORTINGDATA"."ENDDATE" "FACT1_ENDDATE",
"INGRP2"."FACT1_MIN_BEGINDATE" "FACT1_MIN_BEGINDATE",
"INGRP2"."FACT1_MAX_ENDDATE" "FACT1_MAX_ENDDATE",
FULLPACKAGENAME."CONSTANT_0_SITUATION_1" "SITUATION_1"
What is 'FULLPACKAGENAME'???
I can validate my mapping and this is OK. I checked the pluggable mapping again and again, all seems to be right. I can run the mapping and it works. Just need to tune it.
I'm working with OWB 11.1 on a 10.2.g DB
Can please someone help me?
Greetings
S.

Hi,
if you generate the sql in the mapping editor, the sql may not run directly. FULLPACKAGENAME will be replaced my the mapping name during deployment. The constants you define in the mapping will be pl/sql-variables of that package.
To make the sql work, you have to replace the FULLPACKAGENAME.xxx expressions with correct values manually.
Do you have the most recent patch installed? In owb 10gr2 the values from the constants as well as the default values of the mappings are set correctly from version 10.2.0.3 on.
Regards,
Carsten.

How to use pluggable mappings in OWB10gR2

Sorry, yet another newbie question... (btw, boy I really wish the Users Guide was a lot more informative...)
I've created a simple pluggable mapping called "closed_date" that takes a few input data elements (closed date, account status, time since last reported) and does some simple expression logic to come up with a final "closed date" output attribute and an "open account indicator" field.
Now, when I'm trying to actually use the pluggable mapping inside of an ETL map, I get the following error:
"API8003: Connection target attribute group is already connected to an incompatible data source. Use either a Joiner or Set operator to join the upstream data first before connecting it to this operator"
Basically, all of the data is coming out of a big JOINER operator where I join 4 or 5 tables. Then I want some of the attributes to go directly to the target dimension operator, but I also want this pluggable mapping to sit between the JOINER and Dimension to do the translation.
What am I doing wrong - the expressions in the pluggable mapping are exactly the same as the ones I removed from the process flow (when it worked fine)?
Thanks,
Scott

bump!

How to use expdp and impdp in oracle 12c on a pluggable database

Hi,
I have a pluggable database in a container DB. I have to use expdp to export a table and later import the table into another pluggable database.
How can i tell expdp to which pluggable database I want to connect?
Thanks,
Sarayu

Then
1. Add newpdb to tnsnames.ora ?
2. connect to pluggable database create a directory.
sqlplus sys/<password>@newpdb as sysdba
create or replace directory exp_dir as '/u01/app';
grant read, write on directory exp_dir to scott;
3. export emp table of scott user. -- with sys user
expdp directory=exp_dir dumpfile=TDUMP.DMP TABLES='SCOTT'.'EMP'
username: sys@newpdb as sysdba
password: <password>
Regards
Mahir M. Quluzade
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